Landing lights not working

Zola.

A few nights ago the lights in our landing stopped working.

We ordered these from Next with their LED bulbs, for our hall and landing and installed them 4 or 5 months ago.

http://www.next.co.uk/g503996s1?gclid=CNvtiOuRxNMCFesV0wodBz4JLw&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CKjGhu2RxNMCFWkw0wodcLwImg#855556

The Hall ones are working fine...but the landing ones have all stopped working.

Any ideas?

I took the housing off last night and had a quick look at the wires and nothing seemed to be loose.

27cool

Swop the bulbs that are working for those that are not working. This will establish whether there is a fault in the fitting, or if it is just faulty bulbs. LED's may be long life. But it is not guaranteed.

Ebe_Scrooge

Have you checked your Consumer Unit ( fuse-box in old money ) ? It's possible a circuit breaker has tripped. If the landing lights are on their own circuit and its breaker has tripped, this'll be the answer. It's slightly unusual for landing lights to be on their own circuit - it's more common to have one circuit for "downstairs lights" and another for "upstairs lights". But it's easy enough to check visually, you'll soon see if a breaker has tripped.

Zola.

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

Have you checked your Consumer Unit ( fuse-box in old money ) ? It's possible a circuit breaker has tripped. If the landing lights are on their own circuit and its breaker has tripped, this'll be the answer. It's slightly unusual for landing lights to be on their own circuit - it's more common to have one circuit for "downstairs lights" and another for "upstairs lights". But it's easy enough to check visually, you'll soon see if a breaker has tripped.

Would one of the bank of switches be in the 'wrong' position if it tripped? When I looked last night they were all in the same position.

I switched off the main power when looking at the fitting last night, then switched it back on after....would this have reset the trip switch settings? Or do I need to look at something else?

Le_Kirk

Zola. wrote: »

Would one of the bank of switches be in the 'wrong' position if it tripped? When I looked last night they were all in the same position.

Yes, one would be in the tripped position (normally down).

Zola. wrote: »

I switched off the main power when looking at the fitting last night, then switched it back on after....would this have reset the trip switch settings? Or do I need to look at something else?

Switches have to be manually reset.

Zola.

ok, will try the manual switching tonight, should I just reset them all if there's no labels? Cant remember if there are.

Then will try the bulbs.

If that doesnt work, call a spark?

Ebe_Scrooge

Zola. wrote: »

ok, will try the manual switching tonight, should I just reset them all if there's no labels? Cant remember if there are.
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No, you'll only need to reset the one that's tripped ( if, indeed, any have tripped ). As Le_Kirk says, the switches are normally in the "up" position if they're on, and down if they've tripped off. But whatever, it'll be obvious if one is in a different position to the rest - just reset that one.


If they're all in the same position then none have tripped, and the problem lies elsewhere ( unless they'd all tripped, which is highly unlikely and you'd have no power at all in the house ).

LandyAndy

Landing lights not working

Only fly in daylight.

TheCyclingProgrammer

In order of probability I would check:

1. Tripped switch in consumer unit. Easy enough to rule out, especially if other upstairs lights on the same circuit are working.

2. Change bulbs.

3. Replace fitting - you can get a cheap ceiling rose pendant fitting for a couple of quid to rule out a faulty light fitting.

If you're not confident with electrics, stop after step 2 and call an electrician. If you're competent enough to replace the fitting, then proceed to step 3 and if still not working call an electrician to investigate.

Also, if changing the bulb works, you may still need to consider the possibility that the unit is faulty if it has caused all of the bulbs to die at once.